DrupalCon Paris Muiltilingual Panel

DrupalCon Paris Multilingual Panel Projets Multilingues, multilingual internationalized projects too! Yes, I know everything is spelled wrong :) that's kinda the point

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Multilingual Panel - Overview
Our Plan
Panel Discussion, please think of questions
Three short presentations
Geared towards site builders
Real World experience on building multilingual sites
Questions and Answers
What We'll cover in the presentations
Decision points, things you should think about
Drupal 5.x, 6.x, 7.x
Localization
Translating Content, Taxonomies, and Menus
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Multilingual Panel - Doug Green
How to contact me:
[email_address]
d.o douggreen
twitter dougjgreen

Where I work
partner with CivicActions, DrupalCon sponsor
www.civicactions.com

Credentials
lots of Drupal contributions, mostly coder and search
spent the last year working on a multilingual site
CivicActions also did Amnesty International and Drupal 6.x i18n contrib work for Sony
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Multilingual Panel - Doug's Points
Drupal 5.x

t()
string registration or gettext.php
!@ instructions to translators
use php input format views/panels
use php input for cck options
be prepared to patch contrib module, especially in 5.x
missing t()'s
might not of translated content, i.e., panels titles in 5.x
6.x is better ... partially due to work for Sony
another example, hierarchical_select
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Taxonomies
locale
i18nsync
i18nsync
Drupal 5.x "experimental", Drupal 6.x "standard"
Taxonomies
Images
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Organic Groups
each og group is a translated node
causes problems that content uploaded to one og not accessible on other ogs
solution, hack using nodeapi to reattach stuff to "default" language node
but then requires all sorts of other hacks to display things right

Show rareplanet.org (time permitting) and point out problems

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Multilingual Panel - Zohar Stolar
How to contact me:
[email_address]
d.o. z.stolar

Where I work
owner of Linnovate (linnovate.net)

Credentials
Lead teams building several multilingual sites
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Multilingual Panel - Zohar's Points
" English is a kind of Arabic " (My 4 years old daughter).

In Drupal there's one language to rule them all, and the rest of them are only more of the same.

The ease of building multilingual sites, without really knowing the language.

Taxonomies and i18nsync - Doug covered some of this

Cultural issues
Drupal 6.x: added translation to core.
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Multilingual Panel - Zohar's Points
Themed graphics - by using naming convention, we can present localized graphics

Translation 404: http://drupal.org/project/translation404

Alters core's language switcher to always show a language switcher, even if a translation is not present.
On the destination page, you get a 404 page with a list of actions in all enabled languages: [translate the content / go back / go to language home] (hookable)
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Multilingual Panel - Damien Tournoud
How to contact me:
[email_address]
d.o Damien Tournoud

Where I work
af83, DrupalCon sponsor, www.af83.com

Credentials
conference organizer
Drupal 7.x contributions
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Multilingual Panel - Damien's Points
Drupal 7.x: some nice improvements to the multilingual support.
Refactored interface-text translation UI.
Translation contexts
Translatable fields from translation duplication to translation in place
One of Dries' code freeze exceptions

http://drupal.org/node/282191 (TF#1: Allow different interface language for the same path)
http://drupal.org/node/565480 (TF#2: Multilingual field handling)
http://drupal.org/node/557292 (TF#3: Convert node titles to fields)
http://drupal.org/node/539110 (TF#4: Translatable fields UI)
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Multilingual Panel - Q&A
Questions & Answers
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DrupalCon Paris Muiltilingual Panel

by Doug Green on Sep 04, 2009

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